Horcruxes - perhaps one less to hunt

[ornadv]

No: HPFGUIDX 146203


>Goddlefrood
>Bertha was of no signifance to LV<snip>
>Also there would be a possibility that Wormtail
>would have found out what was going on and IMHO LV does not trust
>Wormtail.
>Upon killing Frank Bryce, and assuming that LV did create a Horcurx
>with his killing as Dumbledore suggests, Tom would have severed all
>links with the Muggle world of his youth and eliminated the last
>potential witness to his murder of his grandparents and father. This
>would be significant to LV as far as I am concerned.

Orna:
I'm not sure Voldemort knows Frank – he is just a muggle for him. He 
doesn't say that Nagini tells him the muggle who lived nearby stands 
there, but just "an old muggle". 
And the Wormtail problem is the same with Frank.

>Goddlefrood 
>The problem with the Horcruxes is that LV would not appear to be a
>person who would stop at only six created Horcruxes. It would be
>interesting to speculate, as I do, whether he actually made far 
>more.

Orna:
I think that Voldemort would stop at six, since he believes 7 to be 
the most powerful magical number. He wouldn't risk loosing the 
magical power, just to make more and more horcruxes. There might 
even be something in the process of creating the horcrux, which 
weakens or hurts the wizard in a way – Voldemort is clearly getting 
less human. Not that he cares about this, but there might be some 
other payoffs he would be more anxious to keep as low as possible. 

>Goddlefrood
>On the matter of waiting to create a Horcrux from Harry's murder it
>would be most unlikely because LV would want to be fully protected
>before facing a person whom he believes (based on the portion of the
>prophecy known to LV) to have the power to defeat him.

Orna:
I too would think the way you do – but Voldemort doesn't think like 
that, according to DD. If he had thought this way, he wouldn't go to 
Godric's Hollow on the first place unprotected. According to DD, he 
planned to make with Harry's murder his last horcrux. So he 
preferred to have this horcrux designated for his meaningful murder, 
rather than coming fully protected – even though there were Harry's 
parents he had to overcome then. That means IMO that with Voldemort 
ritualism and magic thinking gets the upper hand on strategic 
logical planning. He might rethink this, after Harry defeated him. 
But he might stick to his basic plan – since he survived, his 
protection seems good enough, so why change the plan? In GoF he 
doesn't treat Harry respectfully as a dangerous opponent – he plans 
mainly how to get to Harry, but one-to-one with him – he doesn't 
look very cautious. Even in OotP he tries to AKe him casually – so 
to speak. So I'm not sure he would change his basic strategy of 
making those 7 horcruxes because of fearing the potter-Boy. The 
existing horcruxes protect him from death, and the final horcrux 
wouldn't add anything to his duel with Harry. 

Personally, I would take your advice – finish the protection ASAP 
before facing the boy with the prophecy. But I doubt if Voldemort 
would. <g>
Still you may be right - because there is Nagini's compliance to 
Voldemort to explain - so perhaps he did it , after all the way you 
said, in Parselmouth...while Wormtail was taking a shower.

Orna, trying unsuccessfully to cut down the horcrux hunt